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rekabis

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  • Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual?

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  • I would take the top-5 languages spoken in Canada and make the country multilingual based off of that.

    If that just so happens to include Cantonese and Hindi, so be it.

    If it includes Cree and/or Inuktitut, even better.

    Sure, have English as the baseline. A baseline should always be the most spoken common language. But having an few other languages as “official” - and supporting numerous others in the way Europe does - would make Canada far more inclusive and intellectually robust.

  • Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature

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  • That’s what I am saving up for, actually. The numbers of surplussed high-end compute just in my sparsely populated region could probably let me open my own datacentre.

  • Why do conservative Albertans admire Texas ?

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  • the rest will retire in Kelowna.

    Fuck, no! Not my home town! We have enough jacked-up and lifted pavement princesses with red license plates as it is!

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Whoever thought of putting an entertainment system right next to the waste disposal is a complete and utter moron.

    I can’t even turn things on without wondering if the cleaners sanitized/wiped in the wrong direction.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • So what? Most of us were never meant to be impactful, or even lack the ability to be impactful. I would posit that life in general was only ever meant for us to vibe with the universe for a brief time. In the span of epochs, and especially once humanity makes itself extinct, vanishingly little will have any material impact on even the planet, much less reality as a whole.

    Unless you manage to trigger false vacuum decay. Then you have made the biggest possible impact by destroying the entire universe. Not sure this is an appropriate goal to reach for, but hey. You do you.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • But somehow matter magically organizes itself into life?

    There is a recent, decently-supported hypothesis that the emergence of life is a byproduct of entropy, and the need for a system as a whole to almost “self-process” itself from a state of high order to one of lower order. So life is an emergent “engine” that allows entropy to function more efficiently. Or, at least a more efficient path than non-life.

    Downside is that life - as we understand it - is only possible under a narrow range of environmental conditions, and complex life even more so. So while “life” may exist throughout the universe in measured single-celled doses, complex life - especially sapient life - may be distressingly rare or even wholly absent except for us.

    Which is a real kick in the nuts when you examine the scientific evidence of how fast we are hurtling towards our own extinction.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • While it is incredibly difficult to keep the breast meat properly hydrated (even I find the best turkeys seem dry with their white meat), another commenter is absolutely correct - a properly done turkey will have absolutely succulent and tasty brown meat. To the point where adding any garnish or gravy is almost an insult.

  • The system is working exactly as intended

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  • Guardrails are only enforceable by the state. Without the state to smash capitalism and enforce guardrails against corruption and the power of greed, capitalism and authoritarianism will always step in to fill the power vacuum.

    This is why communism has always failed within a few months to a few years of initiation: lack of guardrails and laws that are effectively enforced against capitalism or authoritarianism. It’s why every “communist” state in history devolved into an authoritarian, anti-communist political structure very, very quickly. Hell, even in Russia communism was effectively dead by 1918.

    We are so close to having the technology to implement direct participatory democracy (A.K.A., political communism), where things like presidents and premiers and politicians in general just don’t exist, and only minor functionaries and coordinatinative councils remain to carry out the people’s directives.

    What is still needed, however, is a highly educated and literate population that values education, facts, and meritocracy - thereby suffocating conservatism and strangling it to death - and for that population to have an exceedingly tiny level of economic inequality, such that the wealth is returned properly into the hands of the Working Class that created it, and most people can then acquire the mental headspace to focus on more than just daily survival needs (as in, focus on community-level or even nation-level subjects).

    A strong state is not necessarily a dangerous one. What makes ours dangerous is that power is concentrated at the top, with those who have money (capitalists) calling the shots. A distributed, citizen-directed state that is utterly immune from money and power hierarchies can be built that will only ever feel oppressive to those who are inherently abusive, greedy, and malicious.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • The “fuzziness” inherent in reality once you get close to the Plank distance is clear evidence that we exist in a virtual universe whose computing power goes only so far. Reality breaks down at the Plank distance because that’s the pre-programmed limit of detail in the simulation.

  • Please tell me this is shopped. This fucker is my age and I'm embarrassed that any of us turned out this pathetic.

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  • I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.

    At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.

    I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed (through Princess Auto) and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply, clearing out the stock of size 9½ for that shoe nation-wide (I checked, as I wanted even more… would have gladly gotten a half dozen pairs if I could). That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, as the model I got have been fucking awesome work boots.

  • Why Canada’s roadways are studded with cellphone ‘dead zones’

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  • our telecom infrastructure is privately owned.

    This is the crux of the matter.

    You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.

    So geography is not a viable excuse.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.

  • Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass

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  • Am I unreasonably disappointed to not find “Correct Horse Battery Staple” - or some variation thereof - in that list?

  • Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement

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  • OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • There is only ownership parasites and labour.

    FTFY. You’re welcome.

  • ‘Everyone is being screamed at’: Insiders say Stephen Miller irate as deportations lagging

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  • We really need to embed a mole into the payroll department so that we have an accurate list of names and addresses once America’s Nuremberg trials kick off.

    These Gestapo really do need a date with the hangman’s noose once this fascist regime gets overthrown.

    After a fair trial, of course. With plenty of signposts so they see all the process they are getting that they have denied others.

  • Indiana homeowner charged in fatal shooting of house cleaner who showed up at the wrong door

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  • Came across a recent saying that being armed and black has even worse outcomes, especially legal ones, than being unarmed and black. In states with “stand your ground” laws, most people of colour are denied that defence even when it clearly applies.

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Another reason why, while AI might be a fun toy, no one who is serious about getting work done will touch it with a dirty barge pole. The gratuitous hallucinations alone ought to be a sufficient deterrent.

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  • Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…

    Oh.

    Oh, Myyyyyy…